Ernest Del (born January 16, 1952) is an American entertainment attorney. Del served as Senior Advisor at
ZeniMax Media from 2017 till 2021.
Del previously served as President of ZeniMax from 1999 up until April 2017.
He also serves as a director of Delivery Agent and of the Silver Eagle Acquisition Corporation.
Education
Del graduated with degrees in economics and political science from the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
in 1973 and earned his
J.D. degree from
Stanford University Law School in 1976.
Career
Del began his law career in 1976 as an antitrust litigator at the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman & Kuchel, focused primarily on cases addressing the transformation of the nationwide Bell telephone system in the late 1970s before shifting to transactional entertainment law. Initially he worked exclusively on feature films in the United States and abroad. He later worked on television and digital media.
In December 1999, he became President at ZeniMax Media. He additionally served as president of ZeniMax Europe from December 2010 to August 2012. Del later became part of the law firm Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano.
Entertainment law
Del's clients include:
Fox's former executive and current CEO of
Tribune Company,
Peter Liguori,
Kevin Reilly (Chairman of Entertainment for the Fox Broadcasting Company), Former
CW executive
Dawn Ostroff, 20th TV's
Dana Walden,
Lionsgate
Lions Gate Entertainment Corporation, doing business as Lionsgate, is a Canadian- American entertainment company. It was formed by Frank Giustra on July 10, 1997, domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and is currently headquarter ...
CEO
Jon Feltheimer, former
The WB Television Network network president David Janollari,
Leslie Moonves ( former president and CEO,
CBS Corporation
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, an ...
), actor-producer
Paul Reiser, Stuart Bloomberg the former chairman of
ABC Entertainment,
Bob Greenblatt (chairman of
NBC Entertainment
NBCUniversal Television and Streaming is the television and streaming arm of NBCUniversal, and the direct descendant and successor of the former division NBCUniversal Television Group, which existed from 2003 to 2019.
History NBC Broadcasting
In ...
). Some of his associates from Hollywood sat on ZeniMax's Board of Directors: Leslie Moonves, Harry Sloan and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Del helped
Harry E. Sloan to rebuild
MGM, when Sloan was chairman and CEO there. He also repped
Providence Equity Partners in the creation of
Hulu
Hulu () is an American subscription streaming service majority-owned by The Walt Disney Company, with Comcast's NBCUniversal holding a minority stake. It was launched on October 29, 2007 and it offers a library of films and television seri ...
, as well as advising Bethesda Softworks.
In 2009 and 2010, Del was called a power lawyer by ''
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly large ...
''.
See also
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Greg Bautzer
References
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American lawyers
ZeniMax Media
1952 births
Living people